Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-20
DAILY HERALD.
SUBURBAN BOOMS.
New Towns and New Railroads
in the Northern Suburbs.

tme SuDuTDSs
A trip through the new towns north
of the city revealed an immense
amount of activity in business opera
tions. Glendale is pushing ahead
with great activity, with her new ho-
tel, town hall and newspaper, ythe
Encinal. The long fine avenues tare
.all graded and will be bordered with
trees. The fruit crop is large and is
being sent to market, Further ON i'm
provements are being made at Sepul-
veda, where a change has recently
taken place in the development of the
tivation of the land fine farming and
fine crops are seen on all sides and
nice cottages have commenced to arise.
The next settlement northward,
Burbank, is on a prodigious boom.
Although but two months old about
twenty-five fine residences are being
completed and the beautiful hotel,
built in highly ornamental manner,
is nearing completion. The town, as it
is now called, has two real estate offices
and has commenced building street
railway from the depot to the noun
trains. The Southern Pacific Com
pany is erecting handsome depot
that will soon be completed. The
streets are broad and well graded.
Good crops are being harvested all
round the town and all is hurry and
progress.
A little further north new side
track has been made by the Southern
Pacific Company for the beautiful
booming town of Monte Vista, about
five miles way, between the mountain
San Francisco Maria and the Sierra
Madre range. Monte Vista is most
delightful place with its mountain
scenery of beauty and grandeur, its
copious water supply, fine orchards
and vineyards, meadows of alfalfa,
matchless grove of oaks for plaza,
grand fountain and well kept hotel.
Next to Monte Vista side track,
which accommodates the great Tujun-
ga rancho, between the Tujunga river
and the Pacoima creek, is the next
new settlement, Pacoima, now being
made on a thousand acres of fine land
purchased from the San Fernando
Land and Water Company. This was
brush land, but busy men are con-
stantly extirpating the brush, open
ing avenues, digging trenches for
twenty-five miles OF iron pipe, some of
which is twenty-four inches in diameter
for the main line with lateral branches
of II, and 6 inches in diameter. The
water is to be taken from the great
submerged dam in the Pacoima canon.
Houses will 60 up rapidly as the brush
disappears, and bridge will be built
across the creek to the Maclay Theo-
logical College and the library that is
to be built near it.
San Fernando is the next booming
settlement. Six gangs of surveyors
are at work subdividing forty thousand
acres of land, taking levels for irrigat-
ing purposes and stalking out town
opposite the new town, with the South
ern Pacific tracks dividing the two
settlements.
The walls are up of the great brick
hotel being erected in the new town
Just north of the track, on Maclay
avenue, by ex-senator Maclay. Houses
art SOlllS up StcdulIy anu eiC StOSh
has been taken for a street railway to
lead from the Southern Pacific depot
to the college which is now being built.
The hedgerows and trees that were
planted last spring are making remark
able growth and will soon change the
whole aspect of the town. A brick
kiln is in active operation, with a
brisk demand for all that are
made. Eucalyptus trees, planted
IN March as little sprouts, are
now three feet high, and have
made their growth on high, dry land
without irrigation. Corn planted in
March last, is now one and u half feet
high, and has never been irrigated.
The trees and corn are on high
mesa where water is sixty feet below
the surface. These products will
show what our high lands will pro-
duce,
Above the settlement are springs of
petroleum and gas, which belong to
the company, and will be developed
to illuminate the town. The trees
that are planted for fruit, are peach,
apricot, olive, apple, orange and
pears, mainly, and the Monterey cy-
press and eucalyptus will furnish fuel
and shade. A steady procession OF
teams is daily hauling the great wheat
and barley crop that is now being
poured out OF the thresher.
All these settlements seem to be
vieing with each other in a general